{"id":49751,"date":"2021-08-16T18:58:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T15:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=49751"},"modified":"2021-08-16T18:58:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T15:58:31","slug":"police-to-publish-a-list-of-torture-perpetrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/police-to-publish-a-list-of-torture-perpetrators\/","title":{"rendered":"Police to publish a list of torture perpetrators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">By Juliet Nalwooga<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">The Inspector General of Police Martin Okoth Ochola has pledged to continue reviewing efforts to ensure appropriate guidelines on the use of force during operations.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">This follows a directive by president Museveni for security officers to stop beating civilians, as he condemned the continued use of torture by security agencies including the police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">While presenting the statement at the police headquarters in Naguru, police publicist Mr. Fred Enanga noted that is no justification whatsoever under any circumstances, or orders from a superior officer or public authority for torture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">He said that he will ensure that all perpetrators of torture and other forms of physical, mental and psychological abuse by police officers are punished.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\"><b>\u201c<\/b>He came out today to task the Directorate of Human Rights and legal services that is actively enforcing the prevention and prohibition of torture act 2012, and the Human Rights enforcement act that permits criminal prosecution of police officers who willfully deprive individuals of their rights to come up with a list of police officers who have been prosecuted.\u201d noted Mr. Enanga<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">The list is expected on Wednesday, August 18.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">Areas of concern include use of excessive force, brutality, detention for long hours without trial, and induced confession among others.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">The IGP in January this year vowed that security agencies will continue beating journalists purposely to \u2018deter\u2019 them from going where there is danger.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"intro-text\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Juliet Nalwooga The Inspector General of Police Martin Okoth Ochola has pledged to continue reviewing efforts to ensure appropriate guidelines on the use of force during operations.\u00a0 This follows a directive by president Museveni for security officers to stop beating civilians, as he condemned the continued use of torture by security agencies including the police. While presenting the statement at the police headquarters in Naguru, police publicist Mr. Fred Enanga noted that is no justification whatsoever under any circumstances, or orders from a superior officer or public authority for torture. He said that he will ensure that all perpetrators of torture and other forms of physical, mental and psychological abuse by police officers are punished. \u201cHe came out today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":49020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}